I really love the lines that are said on My So Called life. I often use them as my away messages on the aol instant messenger. So...I thought it'd be cool if we start a quote thread...just put the quote and who said it. i'll go first:)

"When I was little, I, like, worshipped Halloween. And truthfully, part of me still does. Because it's you one chance all year to be someone else...I wanna be someone else, but to wear, like, an actual costume to school is too scary."

"Sometimes it seems like we are all living in some kind of prison....and the crime is, how much we hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the true...that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually...beautiful - possibly even me!"

"It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you? And, I mean, this whole thing with yearbook -- it's like, everybody's in this big hurry to make this book, to supposedly remember what happened. Because if you made a book of what really happened, it'd be a really upsetting book."

What I was thinking, as like a New Year's Resolution, is to stop getting so caught up in my own thoughts, 'cause I'm way to introspective.... I think. But what if not thinking turns me in to this shallow person? I better rethink this becoming less introspective thing. (Angela, "Resolutions")

Yes - the music it the background really completes the scene. This episode is like a segment of my life - not only the arguments Angela has with her mum but the whole 'zit' thing. I have suffered with terrible acne (it's clear at the moment - yay!) and I totally empathise with Angela more so than ever in this wondeful episode (mostly because unless you've had it is it hard to understand what a devastating affect it has on people - my family NEVER understood) - and the end quote is just sooooooo truthful I always end up in tears :0) I like the touching look Rayanne gives Angela when she see's that she is emotional about the scene before her.

Brian's quotes are always classic. My personal fave is the one I have as my 'signature' at the bottom (from 'Life of Brian'), but this one in particular cracks me up. This scene is from 'Self Esteem' when Angela has asked Brian for help reviewing geometry for her upcoming exam. The essential quote is, 'You have the option of insanity. I do not. And that -- makes me crazy!' To get the full essence of the quote, though, you've got to see it in the context of the scene:

Brian [to Angela]: You think I care? You could not possibly conceive of how much studying I have to do tonight! Have you ever even heard of calculus? Geometry is a paid vacation compared to calculus. Okay? I mean, do you, do you have any idea what it's like to be an accelerated ? I mean, do you like realize the pressure on a person when it's like assumed that they will always get As? Hey, Brian, pull another A? That Brian, he always gets an A. You have the option of insanity. I do not. And that -- makes me crazy! [Graham enters] Hi. I have to leave. I'm - I'm leaving.

'There's something about my life. It's just automatically true that nothing actually happens.'

I could fill up this whole post with "favorite quotes" but as 'So Called Fan' put it, I think it depends on which day/mood/etc. Following your acne comments Joanna, I like Graham's quote to Patty from the Zit...."Come on. My face was an Italian Entree. You, you had one, one pimple. Like this single, perfect rose.". I know what he meant. My face was an entree NOT a rose!

Yeah - that is a funny scene :0) It's interesting to hear Angela's parents talk about their own youth (especially when they are in a good mood with each other).....because everything comes around and the same things generally happen to eveyone at some point in their life.

i want to keep this thread alive...since i really love the quotes...plus can't leave it at unlucky 13! haha

"School is a battlefield for your heart. So when Rayanne Graff told me my hair was holding me back, I had to listen. Because she wasn't just talking about my hair...she was talking about my life."
-Angela Chase, My So Called Life